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C 11

Of Perjury Falshoods

degrees there are no determinate forms of speech
those only which have just been mentioned.
There are indeed multitudes of words for expressing expressive of
various degrees: such as slightly probable, probable, very probable, highly probable, extremely probable, and so forth but these degrees are none of
them determinate. To p. 14. No 1

From p. 14 No 1
2 A declaration importing doubt may be false as well as one importing certainty. It is plain that for a man person to make a
false declaration it is not absolutely necessary that he should
declare himself either to believe in any degree or
to disbelieve: much less that he should declare himself
absolutely entirely to believe or disbelieve. He may
make a false declaration by declaring himself to
doubt: and his declaration may appear manifestly
to be false, if it appears manifestly improbable
that he should have been in a state of
doubt about the matter: insomuch that the falsity
of it may appear sufficiently manifest to warrant
the convicting him of Perjury Falshood. Thus if suppose a woman
upon being asked whether she ever had a child or
no should were to persist in saying that she did not know;
in such case if she were in other respects of sound
memory it must be manifest that in so answering
she must have been guilty of Falshood Perjury: this being
a fact which if it ever happen'd it is impossible
a woman should forget, and which if it never
happen'd it is impossible she should imagine. To p. 13. No 2


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Identifier: | JB/071/079/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

079

Info in main headings field

of simple falshoods

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f11 / f12 / f13 / f14

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23482

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